Maryland Education Section 8-105

      Each county board that applies for State funds under this subtitle shall include a comprehensive compensatory education plan in its application that:

            (1)      Emphasizes a preventive program aimed at disadvantaged or potentially disadvantaged children; and

            (2)      Has as an ultimate goal:

                  (i)      Teaching disadvantaged or potentially disadvantaged children to read;

                  (ii)      Awakening their interest in learning;

                  (iii)      Giving them a sense of success in school achievement;

                  (iv)      Preventing their alienation from the school; and

                  (v)      Preventing their early departure from school.